Neal wrote:
Yes, Alicia, and the most unfortunate t***h is the inability to understand. Without that somewhat developed capacity, one's grasp of reality can get amazingly twisted.
Do you agree with the idea that every high school curriculum should include a course on critical thinking?
I definitely agree to such a course. Usually it was covered in such courses as Literature and Political Science. It would be interesting to locate texts for such a course.
From what I've seen, the "new" education automatically includes such thinking. Another poster on this forum complained about a math problem where questions were asked based on an illustration (or diagram) that the answers could be answered "considering 20 initial items." He complained that in the first diagram there were only 19 items. I don't know why, but this confused him because his thinking was so limited. I don't believe this was a printing error. The only honest answer would be that "solutions could not be found based on the diagram." All that was necessary was to recognize that the first diagram contained one less than was stated. Anyone who expects to answer an unsolvable problem is the bearer of constricted thinking. He also could have responded on the assumption that there actually were 20 items. But his answers would require that this be stated initially. (No imagination.)